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White House halts $2.1bn of Chicago transport funding; Senate to hold vote as shutdown enters third day – US politics live

Trump aide Russ Vought said hold would affect work to extend and modernize city’s transit lines amid little hope Senate can agree a way out of shutdownIn Russell Vought’s announcement that the White House is halting $2bn in funding for infrastructure projects for Chicago, he said the move was “to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting”.If follows a similar announcement earlier this week involving New York City, where Vought said $18m for infrastructure would be frozen, including funding for a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River, due to the Trump administration’s belief that the money was “based on unconstitutional DEI [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion] principles”. Continue reading...

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